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Raymond Charles "Crusoe" Robertson-Glasgow (15 July 1901 – 4 March 1965) was a Scottish cricketer and cricket writer.

R. C. Robertson-Glasgow

Personal information
Full name	Raymond Charles Robertson-Glasgow
Born	(1901-07-15)15 July 1901 Murrayfield, Edinburgh, Scotland
Died	4 March 1965(1965-03-04) (aged 63) Buckhold, Berkshire, England
Nickname	Crusoe
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Right arm fast-medium
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1920–1935	Somerset
1927–1933	Marylebone Cricket Club
1920–1923	Oxford University
Career statistics
Competition First-class Matches 144 Runs scored 2,102 Batting average 13.22 100s/50s 0/4 Top score 80 Balls bowled 25,190 Wickets 464 Bowling average 25.77 5 wickets in innings 28 10 wickets in match 6 Best bowling 9/38 Catches/stumpings 88/–
Source: CricketArchive, 16 December 2008

Life and career

Robertson-Glasgow was born in Edinburgh and educated at Charterhouse School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford.[1] He was a right-arm fast-medium bowler who played for Oxford University and Somerset. During his career, which lasted from 1920 to 1937, he took 464 wickets at 25.77 in first-class cricket, with best innings figures of 9 for 38 when Somerset defeated Middlesex at Lord's in June 1924.[2]

Convivial, popular and humorous, he subsequently won acclaim for his writing, in which his strong sense of humour shone through.[3] In 1933 he became cricket correspondent for the Morning Post. He later wrote for the Daily Telegraph, The Observer and the Sunday Times.

Robertson-Glasgow retired from regular cricket writing in 1953. He was Chairman of the Cricket Writers' Club in 1959.[4]

His nickname of "Crusoe" came, according to Robertson-Glasgow himself, from the Essex batsman Charlie McGahey. When his captain asked McGahey how he had been dismissed, he replied: "I was bowled by an old ----- I thought was dead two thousand years ago, called Robinson Crusoe."[5]

Robertson-Glasgow committed suicide during a snowstorm whilst in the grip of melancholic depression.[1][6]

Books

Robertson-Glasgow's cricket books include:[7]

• Cricket Prints: Some Batsmen and Bowlers (1920-1940) (Werner Laurie, 1948)
• More Cricket Prints: Some Batsmen and Bowlers (1920-1945) (1948)
• 46 Not Out - an autobiography (1948)
• Rain Stopped Play (1948)
• The Brighter Side of Cricket (Arthur Barker, 1950)
• All in the Game (1952)
• How to Become a Test Cricketer (1962)
• Crusoe on Cricket: The Cricket Writings of R. C. Robertson-Glasgow (1966)

He also wrote the following non-cricket books:

• I was Himmler's Aunt (1940)
• No Other Land (1942)
• Country Talk: A Miscellany (1964)

References

External links

• R. C. Robertson-Glasgow at ESPNcricinfo
• R.C. Robertson-Glasgow at Cricket Archive
• Wisden obituary

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